"ICOSAHEDRON WORLD MAP"

Bruce Bilney doesn't merely do tessellations. This is an "icosahedron": a 3D ball made from
triangles. There are only a very few 3D shapes that you can make by using flat equal-sided
geometric shapes like equilateral
triangles, squares, and pentagons. These shapes-- tetrahedron pyramids made from triangles,
icosahedrons made from triangles, hexahedron cubes made from squares, octahedrons made from triangles, and
dodecahedrons made from pentagons-- are called "the Platonic Solids". Well...that's what math teachers,
Doctor Who, and A+ students call'em, anyway.

Bruce Bilney has made papercraft kits for sale to kids to make Platonic Solids...
both glittery-sided kinds and ones with world maps printed on their sides.

You can see much more of Bruce Bilney's tessellation art at his website, Ozzigami.com.au